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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (33350)	3/25/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

many people think they know what will happen but no one is ever right - hg wells came close though.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (33350)	3/25/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

You will have your entire life on a computer for anyones inspection without your permission. If you have a loan or a credit rating, it's already there. I don't notice it being used to persecute anybody. Do you have any idea how many agents would have to work for how many hours to read everybody's mail? And how little they would learn of any significance? Hardly cost-effective. Why do you think this information would be used specifically against Christians? Christians of the David Koresh variety might have something to worry about, but your average church-going conservative wouldn't.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (33350)	3/25/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

But Sidney, you changed the subject from your contention that Christians are being persecuted to the threat of a more generalized totalitarian state. It isn't mysterious to me, personally, that someone should worry about the state having increasingly great access to all information about all its citizens. That picture kinda gives me the heebie jeebies too. But your belief that Christians are being persecuted by non-Christians does seem to me truly perverse, when Christians are in a (growing) majority; and while i can tell you personal stories about the painful experiences my Jewish friends or their children have been, and continue to be, subjected to by Christians, there are few examples of the opposite dynamic. My suspicion is that Christians were so much in the catbird seat, free to subject non-Christians to their rituals and sanctimony on all public occasions and in all public venues, and notably, to me, in the public schools, that a mere lessening of their ability to rub others' faces in their doctrine feels to them like a veritable slap in the face. I'm saying that I think that it's a subjective thing, Sidney-- that in truth, Christians are simply being treated more like everyone else instead of as The Religion Bosses of America. Now I'm sure that the view of many Christians is that since your religion is right and everyone else's is wrong....etc. (And of course that is the view of the members of most religious factions; it is human nature; and we (the minority) are saved from the majority only by our Constitution.)